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A study on the fluency of Japanese learners in monologue-type tasks: Focusing on time and non-fluency

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2021, (70), pp.73-88
  • DOI : 10.14817/jlak.2021.70.73
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : September 30, 2021
  • Accepted : November 17, 2021
  • Published : December 20, 2021

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This study analyzed the fluency of Korean office workers in the JFL environment through monologue-type tasks. It analyzed the speech data of Japanese learners in Japanese conversation class run by a non-native speaker Japanese teacher, and evaluated the current level of the students’ fluency, the outcome of which may be applied for a teaching method to improve communication skills. Beginner learners tended to lack fluency because fillers such as ‘Ah’, ‘Oh’, and ‘Hum’ were used frequently, and many non-fluency elements such as the use of English or Korean, short syllables, and repetition of words were found in addition to long pauses that seemed like silence. In the intermediate level learners, those whose proficiency is close to the beginners level tended to lack fluency due to the use of a lot of non-fluency elements including poses and fillers. However, their use of pauses and fillers slightly differed from the case of beginners in that they used richer types of fillers as a strategy to buy time for subsequent utterances. Finally, it was found that even advanced level leaners could show the non-fluency elements. Rather, if the use of fillers is significantly less during the conversation, there is a possibility that the listener may not be considered considerate. In addition, there was a possibility that the occurrence of pauses was suppressed through the use of au utterance that has filler-like functions, such as "I don't know" or "I haven't thought about it much." From these results, in real class, we grouped up with learners and proposed an evaluation table as a workspace that can evaluate each other's fluency by listening to each speech directly. In particular, it is expected that it will be possible to take advantage of the fact that opinions can be easily expressed through PC or mobile comment functions in the environment of online classes.

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